Red Bull gives you wings… and a harp… and a halo…
Okay, that was bad. Sorry.
I’m sure someone else has thought of it too, though.
A Winner Is Me!
Hamusutaa (~ascheffl@bubbles.corp.yahoo.com) (Internic Commercial)
ircname : Andy Scheffler
channels : @#Conversatron
server : perdition.homeip.net (Perdition)
idle : 7 hours 20 mins 24 secs (signon: Fri Jul 13 10:50:51 2001)
Happiness is…
Shaking a salad inside its plastic container so that the dressing and non-lettuce toppings get evenly spread out.
Conspiracy!
Okay, I’m convinced. It seems that all of the cute Asian girls here at work all seem to know each other.
There has got to be some sort of conspiracy going on.
This requires more research. I may need binoculars…
AX Day Three
It’s all over. I can’t remember if I spilled the beans here or not, but this was 5XL’s last concert. We mean it. And when I say “we mean it,” we mean it more than “this is our last song” and then 30 seconds later break out an encore that we honestly weren’t planning on doing.
It was an effort of passion, something we did because it was fun, we did it for the fans, the glory, but certainly not for the money… ’cause it cost us way more than it made. It was quite a ride, and now it’s time to take a break.
Changing gears, it’s time for some mini-updates.
- It happened again. A completely different conversation, a completely different situation, and of course, a completely different girl. “My boyfriend” jumps out of the conversation and into my long term memory, a burned-in audio clip that will echo around for too long of a time.
- So if AX fans line up for hours for an event they already have tickets for, how long do they wait for the tickets themselves? I woke up and went to my staff shift at 8am this morning as was surprised by quite a long line already outside. Little did I know, it was actually the third segment of the line, and the first person had actually started lining up at one in the morning. Insanity. Pure insanity.
- On the way to the concert, my mom got a flat tire. Only later, I find out it was more than that. Remember that Firestone recall on Ford Explorers? Well, that’s what happened to her; she had defective tires and one of them blew out.
- So I invited an old high school friend to the concert today. Of course, he was there before the concert, and left early, so he didn’t get to see my mom. Oh well. It was weird seeing him. I also found out that one of the people he still hangs out with that I used to know in high school is now married… and so the ratio goes up.
Only one more day left. It’s been four days, and I’ve built up enough emotional baggage to last me almost half a year… what a vicious cycle. I’ll have just gotten over everything, and it’ll be the convention season again.
Time for bed, I have to get up early again, of course. My feet hurt so much.
AX Day Two
Compared to yesterday, not much happened today. And when I say “not much” I mean “only the equivalent of one week’s worth of social stimulus, not two weeks’.”
I’ve noticed that at anime conventions, people will line up two or three hours before an event even if the tickets are assigned seats. Force of habit, I guess.
The soap here at the hotel smells like Play Doh.
This one’s short. Time to go to sleep, tomorrow’s the big day, concert and all.
Miscellany
Okay, I’ve got a few things to share with you today:
- First, a story about how the little amount of Japanese I know actually came in handy. Back when I was interviewing for jobs, I interviewed with a Japanese game company, just for kicks. Well, of the two people interviewing me, only one really knew English, so he was translating quite a bit for the other. At one point, they ask what I like to do in my spare time, and I say I like to play with my computer, play computer games, that sort of thing. The non-english speaking guy comments to the other “ah, konpyutaa otaku,” to which I reply “oh, I’m not that bad.
- Well, today is now the third day of ten in a row off of work. This evening, I will be travelling to Southern California for my cousin’s wedding tomorrow, then Anime Expo for the rest of the week. Needless to say, I probably won’t be posting in LJ. But you never know…
- I forgot the third thing. Oh well.
SPAM
Okay, I just got an email with the following subject line:
ENLARGE YOUR BREAST SIZE GUARANTEED
Pass.
*whistle*
There has been an outbreak of whistling here in the office.
Oh dear…
Grass
I won’t even go into last night, let’s just sum it up by saying that RedHat Linux sucks.
So for the last few weeks, the lawn outside our window has been dying. Huge patches of green are turning brown. We think it’s because there must be something in the soil (the campus is built on top of a landfill, after all). So this morning I’m walking up to the building, and I hear a tapping on the window above me, and all my coworkers are frantically pointing to something… eventually I figure out they’re pointing to the grass, which is miraculously, and quite suddenly, green again. I get up to my cube, and they tell me that some guys were spraying something on the grass this morning and it was suddenly green. We then figured out what it was.
It was paint.
As far as we can figure, there’s a concert today in the afternoon, which they’re setting up for now, and they want to put up a good public face… and heaven forbid if you have dead grass on your lawn.